The Everyday Housewife

[rayheinrich]

Lies require consciousness.

Maybe a way out of the stereotypicality would be to change
the damn thing to first person:

    Today I went again
    to the basement to watch
    clothes dry, but there was nothing
    inside the dryer.
    I sat there
    looking at my toes.

Unicameral reflection is always appropriate.

(Unfortunately my dryer has a metal door so I'm reduced to using my microwave.)


Hobbs said: "I've been reading Jaynes's "The Origin Of
Consciousness In The breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind"
for the last 30 years. Sections instructive to poets--
particularly the 'analog I' and 'metaphor me.' "

Ah, yes, it's been SO many years since i've heard that term.
i'll always remember the auditory hallucination bit since i've
experienced them, but the main the main thing i came away with
was the importance of the distinction between metaphor and symbol.
http://www.organelle.org/waw/waw0i.html


Hobbs said: "Plus, I have no idea what I'm talking about.
but it doesn't matter when you're 78 years and have done
all the damage you're going to do."

Now THAT's depressing. If i really thought you'd given
up the notion of doing real damage i'd be concerned.

Some days the only thing that keeps me going is the very
real fact that i CAN decide at any moment to slaughter
innocent civilians or, for that matter, write limericks.